Dr. Dixon is a licensed clinical psychologist with 25 years of experience in clinical work and research in child psychopathology, specifically the areas of depression, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD and learning differences in children. Dr. Dixon joined Dr. Julie Schweitzer's ADHD Program at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine in 2008. Currently, she serves as a diagnostic and assessment consultant for the MINT (Mapping Impulsivity's Neurodevelopmental Trajectory) and LEIA (Lisdexamfetamine Effect in ADHD) studies.

In addition Dr. Dixon is the Clinic Director of the MIND Institute's ADHD clinic and coordinates the ADHD Parent Education Group. She is a member of the UC Davis Medical Center Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Volunteer Clinical Faculty). She also has spent many years educating and training psychology graduate students, interns, and post-doctoral fellows as well as medical students, residents and child psychiatry fellows.